Re: A few responses

[Chuck Dale <bug aphid net>]

[problems with Windows Help Browser]

I agree with most of these problems. I was, however, very impressed when
I had a quick look through the MSDN stuff (for Visual Studio). The tree
view made things very easy to understand, and the full text index (huge
list of all words in texts) is extremely useful for finding exactly what
you want. 

> 6. Toolbar with only three items on it. The Windows 98 version groups
> them off, but I'm not sure we can (or would want) to do that in
> Nautilus. Toolbars need at least 60% of it's space in use to look pretty
> (depending on the size of the toolbar, of course), and having "Next",
> "Up", and "Previous" buttons would keep those controls (which are
> universal to all of GNOME's docs, at least) constantly visible. Combined
> with "Back", "Forward", "Print", and possibly "Index" you've got a
> pretty decent looking toolbar with all the major navigation controls
> visible all the time. In this case, it's improving beauty and usability
> at the same time.

Can I put a vote forward for only having three items on the Toolbar? 

In the Windows vocabulary I would consider myself a "Power User" but I
rarely use buttons other than Up, Back, Forward. Same for Gnome apps. 

All functions such as Save and Print are intuitively found in the pull
down menus. Let users add more buttons if they would like but otherwise
keep it extremely simple.

Some thoughts,
Chuck